August seemed to go by pretty quickly for me this year. We were able to get in our first camping trip in the new trailer, did a few really nice hikes and spent a bunch of time working on the new house and yard. I was able to make several Personal Retail Sales in my new town and have started to build my Chilliwack database. The future looks good as far as rebuilding my business here.

My personal CC's were not the highest I've ever achieved but I did finish the month with personal CC's of 5761. My Group Volume (GV) finished up at 11,386. This is the highest GV I've ever had and that is owed entirely to the success of our team. This put my commission cheque at $3013.91 USD, an increase of 127% over August of last year when my cheque was $1326. Once again I didn't track my Personal Retail Sales profit (I really need to start keeping a record of that!) but I estimate that to be around $200 or so.

The Canadian dollar remains low so the $3013 USD converted to roughly $3850 CDN.

August, 2016 Earnings Excluding Personal Retail Sales Profits

August 2016 vs August 2015 Commissions Up 127%

I've already qualified for my growth bonus so my December cheque should look good

Expenses

I often talk about budgeting 10% of your profits for advertising and promotion. So far this year though, I haven't been spending very much at all to promote my business. In time, I plan to start to investigate some paid promotion but for now, I'm just making sure to take full advantage of all of the free opportunities available to me. All I spent this month was:

Web hosting $12 USD

Email system $17 USD

AMSOIL DJ Admin Service $20 USD

Google Adwords $5 USD

Total Expenses: $54 USD

​Key Successes

I don't really care that much about Job Titles and things of that nature but I did qualify to become what AMSOIL calls an Executive Direct Jobber. This simply means that I had three consecutive months of 8000 commission credits or greater. I'll give myself a pat on the back for that : )

The biggest success for the month however was getting Mark started on building some pages on the website. I had reached out to everyone a few months ago about working on the website and Mark has been after me ever since to get him started...way to be persistent Mark! Mark is now well under way and has created several pages that should help him make some additional sales and commissions.

If you'd like to get started on working on the website yourself, let me know and I'll get you started. I now have an easy to follow "instruction book" that you can work your way through.

​Key Failures

The biggest failures that come to mind is just not getting everything done that I wanted to. In last month's income report, I posted this list of everything I was going to get done in August:

Finalize a "Tips" sheet for setting up EmpowerKit websites - Status: Not even started

Reach out to all of the T1 Dealers and offer a free Empowerkit website - Status: DIdn't do it

Fix my Google Adsense ad so that it points to my Chilliwack page - Status: Didn't do it

Start to blog regularly on the three blog pages that I have set up on SyntheticSolutions.ca - Status: Yes, done

AMSOIL Canada Blog - to help get more organic traffic to the website and more sales for the dealers - Yes, several posts

AMSOIL Chilliwack Blog - to help get me some local / retail sales for myself - 1 post

Training Blog - to help answer some of your questions - Yes, several posts

​What I'll be Working On Next

I have a huge list of ideas and things to do that will help me grow my business and also that of the dealers on my team. I think for August though I'lll just try to get as many of the items listed above completed before moving on to more projects.

RobAMSOIL Direct Jobber604-347-8831

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